What Matters Most

2019 has been a year of changes in our household.   Many have been major and more life affecting then we could have ever imagined.  I must confess that I care too much about what others think about our life, so my anxiety has heightened in the process.  I’m learning change isn’t always bad.  Sometimes it […]

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5 Tips For Cultivating Gratitude

In a study noted at Harvard, psychologists found that giving thanks can actually make you happier. They also found gratitude helpful for people focusing on what they had, instead of what they lacked.  As fall turns to winter, shorter amounts of daylight breed depression for many. Instead of succumbing to the negative, why not try […]

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Finding My Place

Before I begin,  I want to emphasize: *1. I am writing in the spirit of Proverbs 11:14 where it says “Where there is no counsel, the people fall; In the multitude of counselors there is safety”   I am hoping to spark a discussion on a subject that has been kind of taboo.  It may not […]

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Choosing Rest

Exodus 33:14 NIV  The Lord replied, My presence will go with you and I will give you rest     Who among us really gets enough rest?   I’ve been engulfed in the hustle and bustle of raising children for nearly 14 years.  Rest has not been high on my list of priorities.   In the midst […]

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Beautiful Words

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. Proverbs 16:24 The knots in my stomach got a little tighter. I felt my heart breaking into teeny tiny pieces as I sat with my husband listening to the angry voice rage on and on at the other end of […]

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Beautiful Scars

What if I told you I had a marvelous tip for dealing with scars? If I’d have known at the beginning of this summer how many scars I’d soon acquire, it would have been discouraging.  2 years of illness and a previous major surgery and subsequent hospitalization with sepsis and staph had left me anxious, […]

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5 years

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God… Fyoder Dostoevsky I often wondered how I might feel as this date approaches. 5 years. 5 long years. 5 years since God decided it was time for one of his gifts to come back to Him. I had thought […]

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